The House of Representatives on Wednesday moved a motion calling for the remival of Inspector General of Police Ibrahim and his spokesman, Moshood Jimoh.
The Reps were considering the recent developments agound the police with regard to the Benue crises and the insult heaped on the Governor of Samuel Ortom during a radio programme on a television channel on Sunday.
Jimoh at the said progamme called Ortom a drowning man and the lawmakers frowned on the vobduct snd unanimously agreed he should be sacked from the position while Idris be removed for not displaying unbiased approach to the herdsmen and farmers clashes that have left do many Nigerians dead.
Also calling for Jimoh’s sack is the Network on Police Reform in Nigeria (NOPRIN).
The NOPRIN issued a statement on Wednesday condemning the styitude if the police spokesman and said he was not properly equipped to deal with image making of the police.
Meanwhile the senate on Wednesday rejected the report of its committee on police that was presented to the plenary.
The senators said Idris, despite being told to arrest the perpetrators of the killings in Benue and Nasarawa for which a two weeks ultimatum was given to him to arrest and prosecute the suspects he had not been able to do so.
Idris, in defiance of senate directive wad nudy complaining that the grazing laws were instrumental to the clashes.
The senate rejected the report and asked the committee to fo the needful in line with the motion earlier passed.
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